Agricultural Pruning Training Guide
Agricultural Pruning Training Guide
2. PRESENTATION:
Dear learner.
With the development of the following activities, we want to provide you with the concepts and procedures that
must be taken into account to achieve the objectives set out in this guide, hoping that it will be of
great help and especially allows you to effectively appropriate it for your work performance.
In the current stage, it will apply Good Agricultural Practices, carrying out technical maintenance to the
tools and equipment in the execution of pruning and grafting tasks.
Initial Reflection Activity: With pruning, we free trees and shrubs from old and dry branches.
in this way, the trees sprout again in spring, giving new life. For this, it is necessary
first, understand the structure of each species to develop pruning procedures.
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Taking into account the previous image, create a structure out of cardboard where the trunk is identified.
las Ramas primarias, las Ramas secundarias, las Ramas fructíferas y los Chupones.
Description of the Activity(s): Carry out the following practices to measure the acquired knowledge
of the studied contents.
Conceptualization activity:
The word pruning has a simple meaning: elimination of undesired growth in plants.
woody plants. But pruning is much more than cutting branches to clear spaces: it is a fundamental task in
gardening. If its principles are not known and its techniques are not respected, a poorly done pruning can lead to
to cause the death of a plant. That is why the following questions must be clear:
Why prune?
What relationship exists between plant phenology, climate, periods of luminosity, and pruning activity?
Contextualization activity:
For this activity, take into account the study material, additional documents, videos, and develop:
Activity 1: write an essay, taking into account the reading 'Some things about Phenology'.
Activity 2. Explain what the relationship is between plant phenology, climate, and the periods of
brightness and pruning activity.
Activity 3. Create a card game where the types of training branches are visualized and explained.
fruiting, production, and types of buds.
Actividad 4. Seleccione 5 cultivos, realice un diagnostico visual dentro de este, dibujando y explicando los
aspects previously developed in each of the crops (phenology, climatology, periods of
luminosity, types of branches, types of buds and the incidence of all factors at the time of pruning.
Actividad 5. Seleccione de la zona de cítricos ubicados en el CAM, un sector y complete el siguiente cuadro:
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Plant 1.
Plant 2
Plant 3
Plant 4
Floor 5
Floor 6
Floor 8
Floor 9
Plant 10
Activity 6. Considering what was observed on the premises, formulate the procedure to intervene in.
pruning activity in citrus. It is recommended to see the following links:
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Activity 6. Develop a pruning plan for citrus that meets good practice parameters.
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4. EVALUATION ACTIVITIES
Use the evaluation techniques and instruments mentioned in the Curriculum Development guide as a reference.
Evidence of Knowledge: Manipulate the inputs with the Direct observation - Lists of
checklist guide of elements, teams y
checkup
tools defined in the
learning. protocols and manuals of
industrial safety and health Direct observation-Play of
Evaluation Checklist
writing. occupational roles
Performance Evidence: Formulation of questions
Prepare procedure for Questionnaires in guide of
carry out pruning tasks. learning.
Product Evidence: guide of Direct observation - List of
learning verification
5. GLOSSARY OF TERMS
Aclarado de ramas:consiste en reducir el número de tallos o ramas para despejar la copa y permitir que
Let air and light through. It begins by eliminating entire branches or twigs that collide with others or cross each other.
through the center of the cup and continues with those that grow too close to others that are better positioned.
No stumps are left, but the stem or twig is completely removed from its origin. Also
we carry out thinning of fruits when their number is excessive. The weakest ones are removed when
They reach the size of peas. In this way, those that remain will grow more beautiful and of better size.
Leaf clearing: it is important when transplanting a coniferous tree. Some leaves are removed.
so that the plant does not dehydrate due to excessive evaporation. It can also be done when the canopy is
so compact that light does not penetrate it and the fruits have trouble ripening and coloring.
Acrotony, acrotonic: The acrotonic plants are those that show dominance of the apical bud. This means
the first bud to sprout and develop is that of the apex. The apple tree and the pear tree are acrotonic fruit trees.
This is very important when it comes to fruit pruning as it completely determines it. The opposite
the acroton is basitone.
Insertion angle: It is formed by the branches with the trunk. The greater the angle, the more solidity.
it will have the branch.
Branch arching: Sometimes it is necessary to open the insertion angle a little. It is carried out on plants.
young people, before the branch becomes too rigid. One of the possible ways is to fit a piece
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from cut cane at a double bevel between the bouquet and the branch. Other times it is done so that the bouquet develops
fruit yemas. Then it arches towards the ground with greater or lesser intensity. The greater the arch, the more
possibility of suckers emerging in the high areas of the arch.
Basiton: The plant whose basal buds are the most developed.
Brindillas: Thin twigs between 15 and 30 cm bearing floral and woody buds. In stone fruit trees.
the lateral buds of the brindilla are generally flowers while those of the pip fruit are woody and
is of flower the terminal bud called then crowned sprig. The crowned sprigs, in principle
they are not pruned and are allowed to develop the terminal fruit, which with its weight curves and favors the development of
the buds that are below. The following season is when they are pruned above the first
shoots that have developed. This way, short and strong fruit shoots are achieved.
Sprout: New and vigorous shoot that emerges from a woody bud. If they arise from the buds located on the sides of
the branch is called shoots or lateral branches.
Crown: Set of branches, twigs, and leaves of the tree. Each species has its characteristic crown shape. There is
trees like pear trees that tend to develop a tall and narrow canopy and others like orange trees that
they develop globular. It is important to know what the subsequent development of a tree's crown will be before
to acquire it to properly consider the place and the space and not to have to subject it to pruning later on
mutilating them will weaken and uglify them. With ornamental trees, ideally, you should not modify their canopy anymore.
that this is an essential part of its charm. With the fruit trees, however, we will induce through pruning,
the type of glass that is most convenient (French glass, Italian, bush, free), pyramid, spindle, palmette...
6. BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES
CITRUS PRUNING. IFAPA COURSE PROGRAM Agricultural production courses IFAPA. Augustine
Carmona García-Olalla María Coronada Reyes Juan M. Alfonso Almirón, Martín González. MARCH 2007.
MANUAL DE PRODUCCIÓN DE CÍTRICOS Y MANEJO DE INJERTOS. Guido Apaza Choque. Coroico–Nor Yungas
La Paz, January 2003.
CITRUS PRODUCTION. Education for Development Foundation FAUTAPO. Sucre Bolivia December 2014.
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